Usually means: Strategy to prevent hostile takeovers.
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  1. poison pill: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. poison pill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. poison pill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. poison pill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. poison pill: Vocabulary.com
  6. poison-pill: Wordnik
  7. poison pill: Wiktionary
  8. poison pill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. poison pill: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. poison pill: Dictionary.com
  11. Poison pill (NBA), Poison pill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. poison pill: Rhymezone
  13. poison pill: Free Dictionary
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  15. poison-pill, poison pill: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  5. Poison pill: bizterms.net
  6. Poison pill: Moneyterms
  7. Poison Pill: Investopedia
  8. Poison Pill, poison-pill: Legal dictionary
  9. Poison Pill, poison-pill: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. poison pill: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Poison Pill: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See poison_pills as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (poison pill)

noun:  (business) Any strategy designed to produce negative results for an entity carrying out a takeover.
noun:  (politics) A provision in a bill that leads to people who would have supported it opposing it instead.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see poison, pill.

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